Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBEwas an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth17 February 1930
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Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.
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Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.
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Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans.
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I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left.
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Women's rights are more important than their ethnic rights.
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I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.
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There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.
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I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.
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I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.
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I have two quite large houses, and every cupboard and drawer is stuffed with books.
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I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'
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I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years.
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I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
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I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'